Ellen Sandelin

Ellen Beata Elisabeth Sandelin (19 July 1862 – 7 August 1907) was a Swedish physician who practiced in Stockholm, and was also a teacher in physiology and health education. She received her medical license in 1897.

Biography She was the daughter of physician Carl Henrik Sandelin (1824–1871) and Beda Collett.

Sandelin graduated from the Wallinska girls school in Stockholm in 1881. ) Sandelin went on to teach at a girls' school in Karlstad, Sweden, and As she wrote in 1899,"... a Royal Ordinance was issued, in 1870, by which women obtained a right to matriculate to pursue medical studies, graduate in medical degrees at the universities, and practise as physicians.... In 1873 Upsala University admitted its first female student of medicine..."

Later years Sandelin also participated actively in the women's movement, was a member of the first National Association for Women's Suffrage and gave lectures at the women's congresses in London 1899 and in Berlin 1904.

Selected published works

The Medical Training of Women in Sweden (1899) On Some Infectious Diseases and Their Social Dangers (1902) On the Moral Education of Youth (in the series "Popular Scientific Dissertations," 23, 1902) The Women's Body, its Building and Hygiene (1903)